燕

See also 鷰

Translingual

Han character

燕 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿中心火 (TLPF), four-corner 4433₁)

1. a state during the Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in China
2. swallow (bird)
3. comfort, enjoy

References

• KangXi: page 683, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19429
• Dae Jaweon: page 1095, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2239, character 6
• Unihan data for U+71D5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

燕 (Yale yin1, yin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

燕

Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: つばめ (tsubame)

Noun

燕 (hiragana つばくらめ, romaji tsubakurame)

1. a swallow
   • c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 11)

     「[...] 石上の中納言には、燕（つばくらめ）の持たる子安のかい、ひとつ取りて賜へ」

   • 931-938: Wamyō Ruijushō (book 7 page 29)

     是我邦所謂豆波久良米也

Noun

燕 (hiragana つばめ, katakana ツバメ, romaji tsubame)

1. a swallow, especially the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica

Wikispecies

References

• 1997 June 19, Hideaki Horiuchi; Ken Akiyama, Taketori Monogatari , Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240017-4:
• 1968 June 19 [931-938], Shitagō Minamoto; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu, Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 4-653-00507-9:

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Korean

Hanja

燕 (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

燕 (pinyin yān (yan1), yàn (yan4), Wade-Giles yen¹, yen⁴)

Compounds

• 燕麦
• 燕麦粥

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Vietnamese

Han character

燕 (yến, én, yên, nhạn)